Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party . |
| 2 | Janice was only 13 when the doctor first diagnosed her headaches as migraine . |
| 3 | Werner Bischof died young : he was only 38 when the Jeep in which he and two companions were travelling plunged into a gorge in the Andes on May 16 1954 . |
| 4 | The manoeuvre was almost complete when the car started weaving across the road . |
| 5 | It was around six when the party broke up in disarray . |